The Sewanee Review, Volume 34University of the South, 1926 |
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... less so . Had it lasted he might have been less the satirist . But it would have been a pity to lose Gulliver's Travels . In that vision of the real and the ideal world we see nearly all of the personality of its author - a personality ...
... less so . Had it lasted he might have been less the satirist . But it would have been a pity to lose Gulliver's Travels . In that vision of the real and the ideal world we see nearly all of the personality of its author - a personality ...
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... less share of happiness than I : I do not say I am unhappy at all [ i.e. , in all things ] , but that every- thing here is tasteless to me for want of being as I would be . And so a short sigh and no more of this . " " For want of being ...
... less share of happiness than I : I do not say I am unhappy at all [ i.e. , in all things ] , but that every- thing here is tasteless to me for want of being as I would be . And so a short sigh and no more of this . " " For want of being ...
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... less , is not excessive . The profound originality of Swift is proof of a mind of the first order . Gulliver makes most other books look commonplace . As satire , it is far superior to A Tale of a Tub both in breadth of conception and ...
... less , is not excessive . The profound originality of Swift is proof of a mind of the first order . Gulliver makes most other books look commonplace . As satire , it is far superior to A Tale of a Tub both in breadth of conception and ...
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... less smug deprecation of it as an unduly stern criticism of human nature . " Careful students of Swift , however , did not need the lessons of the Great War as an aid to perception of his tonic value . His words , bitter in the mouth ...
... less smug deprecation of it as an unduly stern criticism of human nature . " Careful students of Swift , however , did not need the lessons of the Great War as an aid to perception of his tonic value . His words , bitter in the mouth ...
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... less . laughter - provoking then A Midsummer Night's Dream and is obviously ridicule , not sympathy . Twelfth Night offers hu- mor in the duel between Sir Andrew and Viola , satire in the spectacle of Malvolio's pluming himself on ...
... less . laughter - provoking then A Midsummer Night's Dream and is obviously ridicule , not sympathy . Twelfth Night offers hu- mor in the duel between Sir Andrew and Viola , satire in the spectacle of Malvolio's pluming himself on ...
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Page 186 - With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion ; and the passions should be held in reverence ; they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Page 458 - Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what " Blackwood" or the "Quarterly" could possibly inflict : and also when I feel I am right, no external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine.
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Page 181 - What the unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns, And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns.